Time the Beatles Invasion!: The Inside Story of the Two-Week Tour That Rocked America
The Beatles' first excursion to the United States, from February 7 to February 21, 1964, was an epochal moment in American culture. It was a musical earthquake that defined music going forward and a cultural youth quake that defined generations to come. That fourteen day window not only solidified the Beatles' careers, it reshaped our culture, and nothing thereafter was ever the same. It was as if someone flipped a switch, and from February 7 on, the Beatles dictated how we looked, felt, thought, and acted.

Now, Bob Spitz, the New York Times bestselling author of The Beatles: The Biography takes readers through those dizzying four days - from "The Ed Sullivan Show," to Carnegie Hall, you get a sense of how America fell in love with the Beatles and moved from the button-down Eisenhower era to the go-go Sixties almost overnight.

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Time the Beatles Invasion!: The Inside Story of the Two-Week Tour That Rocked America
The Beatles' first excursion to the United States, from February 7 to February 21, 1964, was an epochal moment in American culture. It was a musical earthquake that defined music going forward and a cultural youth quake that defined generations to come. That fourteen day window not only solidified the Beatles' careers, it reshaped our culture, and nothing thereafter was ever the same. It was as if someone flipped a switch, and from February 7 on, the Beatles dictated how we looked, felt, thought, and acted.

Now, Bob Spitz, the New York Times bestselling author of The Beatles: The Biography takes readers through those dizzying four days - from "The Ed Sullivan Show," to Carnegie Hall, you get a sense of how America fell in love with the Beatles and moved from the button-down Eisenhower era to the go-go Sixties almost overnight.

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Time the Beatles Invasion!: The Inside Story of the Two-Week Tour That Rocked America

Time the Beatles Invasion!: The Inside Story of the Two-Week Tour That Rocked America

by Bob Spitz
Time the Beatles Invasion!: The Inside Story of the Two-Week Tour That Rocked America

Time the Beatles Invasion!: The Inside Story of the Two-Week Tour That Rocked America

by Bob Spitz

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The Beatles' first excursion to the United States, from February 7 to February 21, 1964, was an epochal moment in American culture. It was a musical earthquake that defined music going forward and a cultural youth quake that defined generations to come. That fourteen day window not only solidified the Beatles' careers, it reshaped our culture, and nothing thereafter was ever the same. It was as if someone flipped a switch, and from February 7 on, the Beatles dictated how we looked, felt, thought, and acted.

Now, Bob Spitz, the New York Times bestselling author of The Beatles: The Biography takes readers through those dizzying four days - from "The Ed Sullivan Show," to Carnegie Hall, you get a sense of how America fell in love with the Beatles and moved from the button-down Eisenhower era to the go-go Sixties almost overnight.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781618931146
Publisher: TIME USA
Publication date: 01/07/2014
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 9.00(w) x 12.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Bob Spitz is an American journalist and author best known for his celebrity biographies, including the New York Times bestseller The Beatles: The Biography. Articles by Spitz appear regularly in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, Men's Journal, InStyle, Esquire, and The Washington Post. Bob Spitz has spent almost nine years researching and writing about the Beatles and is an expert in this field.

Table of Contents

Prologue 4

1 Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!

Worried about how America will receive them, the Beatles land in New York and Beatlemania takes off 8

2 Mania in Manhattan

On the eve of The Ed Sullivan Show, the Beatles confront their new reality: ever-present fans, the press and Murray the K 22

Photos With the Beatles: Ready for Their Close-Up 28

3 Ladies and Gentlement…the Beatles!

America meets the boys from Liverpool, live and in black and white, and parents breathe a sigh of relief 38

4 Pans and Pandemonium

Mainstream media reviews range from bad to scathing, but the kids don't care 54

Photos With the Beatles: Rare Discovery 66

5 Get Back

During a trip to Washington, D.C., the unrelenting spotlight and grueling schedule start to take their toll 72

6 Here Comes the Sun

The tour ends in Miami, with a home-cooked meal, a seaside respite and the fighter who became "the Greatest" 84

Photos With the Beatles: Gettin' the Boot 88

Epilogue 106

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